This work is sold likewise at BOBÉE AND HINGRAY'S LIBRARY, N° 14, RUE RICHELIEU. PRINTED BY CRAPELET, n° 9, rue de Vaugirard. PRINTED FOR L. BAUDRY AT THE ENGLISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN AND SPANISH LIBRARY, LEFEVRE, BOOKSELLER, THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM HENRY VII TO GEORGE II. CHAPTER XVI. ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THE REIGNS OF Termination of Contest between the Crown and Parliament. — Distinctive Principles of Whigs and Tories. these by Circumstances. the Succession. Changes effected in Impeachment of Sacheverell displays them again. -- Revolutions in the Ministry under Anne. - War of Treaty of Peace broken off. Renewed again by the Tory Government. Arguments for and against the Treaty of Utrecht. The Negotiation mismanaged. Jacobites. Some of the Ministers engage in them. — Just Alarm for the Hanover Succession. Accession of George I. — Whigs come into Power. — Great Disaffection in the Kingdom. — Impeachment of Tory Ministers. - Bill for septennial Parliaments. Jacobitism Peerage Bill. the Clergy. Convocation among Encroachments. — Hoadley. - Convocation no longer suffered to Infringements of the Toleration by Statutes under Anne. They are repealed by the Whigs. - Principles of Toleration fully established. - Banishment of Atterbury. Decline of the Jacobites. – Prejudices against the reigning Family. - Jealousy of the Crown. - Changes in the Constitution whereon it was founded. Per |